Showing posts with label crazy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crazy. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2009

Get Your Crazy Michele Bachmann Action Figure


She doesn't have the kung-fu grip of GI Joe, or wet her pants like Hasbro's Baby Alive, but the Michele Bachmann action figure doll most certainly involves bending and twisting in order to distort common positions into unrecognizable wack-a-doodle poses.

And it's only $34.95. That's probably due to supply & demand.

The market is flooded with crazy right now.

Via Talking Points Memo



Monday, September 7, 2009

Hey Kentucky - what's wrong with you?

Only 51% of Kentucky residents believe that President Obama was born in the United States.

As long as they never stop believing in Daniel Boone, I guess.

Image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/


Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Blago's New Web Site

Disgraced and indicted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has launched a new website where he's furiously stirring the crazy pot and hucking the Blago-brand.

Since his controversial ousting from office, Rod Blagojevich has refused to be silent.

The twice elected former governor of Illinois asserts he is innocent of all charges and looks forward to his day in court.

In the meantime, he's not holding back. He's not playing politics or playing nice. He's simply speaking his mind and telling the truth!

Umm, Rod, baby, sweetheart - I'm not quite sure how to say this, but I can turn off my speakers and you're effectively on mute. However, I am intrigued by this whole "telling the truth" angle. That's new. How'd  you come up with that?

Image by Craynol via flickr


Friday, August 7, 2009

Sarah Palin Goes Bonkers Over Obama Health Care Plan

If you thought that the world might become a calmer, less crazy place once Sarah Palin's resignation as Alaska governor took effect...what were you thinking?

Via Talking Points Memo, there are reports that Palin believes the Obama plan will include "death panels" where government employees will decide if her disabled child should be put to sleep like a sick hamster.

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.



Sunday, July 5, 2009

Will Sarah Palin Sue the Internet?

Bill Kurtis, in his television commercials for wireless broadband doohickeys, always exclaims, "I'm Bill Kurtis, and I just found...the Internet" as the end-tag of each 30-second offering.

Sarah Palin and her lawyers have found the Internet, but rather than gaze wondrously at its immense awesomeness, they are threatening to sue it. Also.

Immediately after alleged whack-a-doodle Palin went live from her back yard to inform the world that, in her crazy mixed-up brain, the best way to stay the course was to quit, and golly, thanks to Alaska for electing her to a four year term which she would not complete, and doncha know, since lame ducks don't get anything done, also, but expensive travel at taxpayer expense, she'll be turning this important job over to someone that Alaska didn't elect at all, American news outlets and bloggers went nuts themselves, less over continued Palin knee-jerk hyperbole than out of frustration about being forced to work over a three-day 4th of July weekend.

Damn you, Sarah. We had Johnsonville brats and everything.

Of course, MSNBC and major non-conservative-leaning newspapers and the bloggerati went into full Anna Nicole Smith - Michael Jackson mode to begin wildly flinging speculation about what was really behind the resignation, because not taking a politician's statement at face value is the second thing they teach you at fancy journalism school, right after the proper usage of its, it's, and its'.

Known as the other shoe scenario, talking heads and blogging Twatters ran through a litany of other possible explanations - a full-bore run at the 2012 nomination, another pregnancy (how could you, Todd?), being co-opted by Scientology (how could you, Greta?), the upcoming book....yeah, they could all be true. Not a lot of 24-hour news staying power there, though.

What about a scandal? Survey says...Ding ding ding. 100 people surveyed, and that was their top answer.

A cursory examination of her political career (1992-2002, 2006-2009) revealed a couple of tasty possibilities, including that fancy house on the lake built from the dried bones of Sarah's critics by Todd Palin and a gaggle of born-again, devil-hating beavers. And so people speculated, saying the IRS and Eliot Ness and Patrick Fitzgerald, and Underdog had been examining the relationship between a Wasilla building supply company, the Wasilla white-elephant memorial cost overrun sports complex, and Todd's goatee.

Prowling the fine line between fact and fiction like an Arctic Cat on fresh powder, the media hyped and insinuated and posed statements as questions so as to maintain a defensible position once the depositions started to fly, all of which hurt Sarah's feelings, this naughty politics of destruction, because how can Sarah make it to the top if people keep blowing over the house of cards on which she's standing?

What's a simple Alaska mom who was recently on the presidential ticket to do? Send out the lawyers to threaten people, of course. This is America, even in Alaska. Free speech is only permitted if it supports the media narrative she spent minutes and hours creating.

One person's truth is another person's defamation, and nattily attired Palin legal eagle Thomas Van Flein promised to explore the legal options available, because Todd knows his way around a Home Depot, dammit, and people can't go around saying he doesn't. He goes there all the time, mainly to escape the vortex of batshit crazy that has settled in now that is his wife can't bill Alaskans for the kids' travel expenses and shoes and whatnot.

Not withstanding the free speech clause in the Alaska constitution, or that pesky First Amendment protection that Tom Jefferson and John Adams slipped in at the last minute, Sarah is cranky that people are parsing her words and saying things that hurt her feelings. Since she can't threaten to quit again, there's little left to do but to employ the "I'm rubber - you're glue" defense in an offensive manner.

Good luck with that, Sarah. You're not batshit crazy. You're simply misunderstood.